Fireflies.ai vs Spinach AI

Fireflies.ai

• Teams that want every call transcribed and searchable in one place
• People who want apps on web, desktop, phone and a Chrome extension
• Sales and recruiting teams that log calls to a CRM or applicant tracker

Spinach AI

• Companies that would rather pay by meeting hour than per seat
• Product and engineering teams turning action items into tickets
• Teams that want to start on a free plan and trial the paid features

Fireflies.ai

• The Free plan stores 400 minutes per team, limits AI summaries and does not include transcript downloads or video recording.
• AI Skills, custom summary sections and soundbites draw on AI credits; plans include only a one-time allowance and extra packs start at $5 a month.
• Conversation intelligence starts on Business. SSO, SCIM and HIPAA compliance are Enterprise only, and Enterprise is billed annually.
• Every teammate added to a workspace counts as a paid seat on paid plans.

Spinach AI

• Starter keeps recordings for only 7 days, has basic summaries and lacks the CRM, ticketing and knowledge-base integrations.
• The Pro plan requires a work email domain; public addresses such as Gmail are not eligible.
• Meetings longer than 3 hours do not receive a summary, according to Spinach's FAQ.
• Spinach runs as a bot in the call plus a browser dashboard. SSO, SCIM and the API need Enterprise, which has a 50-seat minimum.

Fireflies.ai

Notetaker bot or bot-free capture

Invite the Fireflies notetaker to a call or let it auto-join meetings on your calendar. The desktop app can instead take notes from device audio with no bot in the meeting.

Transcripts and AI summaries

Every plan includes unlimited transcription, and paid plans add unlimited AI summaries with an overview, notes and action items. Fireflies lists support for 100+ languages.

AskFred and Live Assist

AskFred is an AI assistant for questions about meeting content. In the desktop app, a floating Live Assist pane shows notes, the transcript and AskFred during the call.

Fireflies Talk dictation

Hold a key and speak to dictate text into any app from the desktop app. Fireflies says this is free and unlimited on every plan, including Free.

Conversation intelligence

Business and Enterprise add analytics on team and individual conversations. Free and Pro do not include them.

Integrations and MCP server

Connects to CRMs, project tools, applicant tracking systems and dialers such as Aircall and RingCentral. An MCP server exposes meeting data to assistants like Claude and ChatGPT.

Spinach AI

Notetaker for video calls

Spinach joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex meetings from a connected Google or Microsoft calendar and records them. Slack Huddles support is in beta.

Summaries and templates

Sends a summary with action items and decisions a few minutes after the meeting, using meeting templates. Starter gets basic summaries; paid plans get advanced ones.

Ask Spinach

An AI chat that answers questions from meeting data. It is limited on Starter and included in full on Pro, Business and Enterprise.

Tickets and CRM updates

Paid plans connect to Jira, Linear, Asana, ClickUp, Trello and Monday for tickets, to HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio and Zoho, and to Confluence, Google Docs and Notion.

Pay-as-you-go Pro plan

Pro charges $2.90 per meeting hour for an unlimited number of users, billed on actual usage. A month with no meetings costs nothing.

Quick Record and uploads

Quick Record captures in-person conversations from the browser, and existing recordings can be uploaded for a summary on paid plans.

Fireflies.ai

• Free$0

  Unlimited transcription and limited AI summaries, with 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits.

• Pro$10

  per seat / month, billed annually ($18 billed monthly)

  Unlimited AI summaries, 8,000 minutes of storage per seat, video recording, and transcript and recording downloads.

• Business$19

  per seat / month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly)

  Unlimited storage plus team and individual conversation intelligence.

• Enterprise$39

  per seat / month, billed annually only

  Adds SSO and SCIM, HIPAA and FERPA compliance, with volume discounts as the team grows.

Spinach AI

• Starter$0

  Recordings, transcripts and basic AI summaries in 100+ languages, with calendar and Slack integration and 7-day recording retention.

• Pro$2.90

  per meeting hour, pay as you go, unlimited users

  Company-wide account: advanced AI summaries, Ask Spinach, MCP connectors, CRM and task-tool integrations. Requires a work email domain.

• Business$19

  per user / month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly)

  No seat minimum: unlimited meetings, advanced AI summaries, Ask Spinach, MCP connectors, CRM and task-tool integrations, and custom branding.

• EnterpriseCustom

  50-seat minimum: SAML SSO and SCIM, admin settings and reporting, API, custom data retention, compliance agents and a HIPAA BAA.

Fireflies.ai

• Annual discount

  Save up to 44% with annual billing

  Fireflies' pricing page says annual billing saves up to 44%: Pro is $10 instead of $18 per seat a month, and Business is $19 instead of $29.

• Education

  10% off paid plans for students

  Fireflies' help center lists a 10% discount on Pro, Business or Enterprise for students, on monthly or yearly plans. It is claimed by emailing support from a school address.

• Nonprofit

  10% off paid plans for NGOs and nonprofits

  The same help article lists a 10% discount on Pro, Business or Enterprise for NGOs and non-profit organizations, requested by emailing support from the organization's email domain.

Spinach AI

• Annual discount

  Save $120 a year per user on annual billing

  The pricing page shows a $120 yearly saving on the Business plan with annual billing: $19 per user a month instead of $29 on monthly billing.